Kyiv : The Tripoli Thermal Power Plant (TPP) outside the Ukrainian capital has been completely destroyed in a Russian missile strike, a media report quoted an official as saying. According to a report by Xinhua news agency, Andriy Tots, chairman of the supervisory board of Ukrainian power plant Centrenergo, said on Thursday that a fire … Read more
The US President said Russia had “violated” the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The deal banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,400 miles). The US would not let Russia “go out and do weapons [while] we’re not allowed to”, Trump said.”I don’t know why President [Barack] Obama didn’t … Read more
Defence Ministry officials said the test firing of the missile from a Tejas jet was carried out yesterday off the Goa coast and it met all operational requirements. Earlier, Tejas was given clearance for deployment of armaments and other missiles. The Indian Air Force (IAF) had ordered 40 Tejas Mark-1 version and a request for … Read more
Mumbai: Brahmos, the fastest cruise missile in the world co-developed by India and Russia, will be breaching the mach 7 barrier to become a ‘hypersonic’ system in the next decade, a top official said. “We will require seven to ten years from now to become a hypersonic missile system,” Sudhir Mishra, the chief executive and … Read more
Pokhran: India on Thursday successfully test-fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from Rajasthan’s Pokhran test range. The supersonic cruise missile was last test-fired in November 2017 from the Indian Air Force’s fighter, Sukhoi-30MKI. The BrahMos was also showcased at the Dubai Air Show last year and had garnered quite a lot of interest from several … Read more
